STRING

This article is about the biological database. For the object, see String. For other uses, see String (disambiguation).

STRING

Content
Description	Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins
Contact
Research center	Academic Consortium
Primary citation	PMID 30476243
Access
Website	STRING website
Download URL	url
Web service URL	rest
Miscellaneous
Version	12.0 (July 2023)

In molecular biology, STRING (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins, previously Search Tool for Recurring Instances of Neighbouring Genes) is a biological database and web resource of known and predicted protein–protein interactions.

The STRING database contains information from numerous sources, including experimental data, computational prediction methods and public text collections. It is freely accessible and it is regularly updated. The resource also serves to highlight functional enrichments in user-provided lists of proteins, using a number of functional classification systems such as GO, Pfam and KEGG. The latest version 11b contains information on about 59 million proteins from more than 12,000 organisms. STRING has been developed by a consortium of academic institutions including CPR, EMBL, KU, SIB, TUD and UZH.